Valve just followed up its SteamOS announcement from earlier this week by unveiling what it calls "Steam Machines," a new category of living room hardware designed to get you playing PC games on the big screen. There will be different hardware to choose based on your needs and budget, details of which will be unveiled at a later time. In the meantime, Valve has designed a high-performance prototype and plans to ship 300 of them to beta testers, free of charge.

If GTA V is anything like the prior games, then it's one of those "Oh crap it's 4:00 am!" games, just like WoW or Skyrim or Civ or (as I have found) Kerbal Space Program. I wonder if anyone makes a countdown timer that delivers an electric shcok when it hits zero. That might be enough to get me out of a Skyrim trance.

I am enjoying being back in Skyrim. The one-year break I took was enough time for the DLC to come out and plenty of new mods to be added, and it's almost like a new game all over again. I also purposely did not play through some questlines the first time through, like the Thieves Guild quests. I'm now finishing those up. I really like the crossbows that were added in Dawnguard. Twang!